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THE TEAM

Our greatest asset is our carefully selected consultants. We put a lot of time and energy into our consultants, so that they are happy. Because we know, that how we are at home, we are with you. Welcome home.

Örjan Kihlbaum

Strategic Advisor

Simon Wåhlin

Technical Architect

Jimmy Andersson

Chief Architect

Magnus Sörensson

Technical Architect

Tomas Lepa

Technical Architect

Johnny Radeck

Technical Architect

Johan Hellström

Technical Architect

Henrik Antin

Technical Architect

Jan Wisborg

Captain

Staffan Olsson

Technical Architect

Johan Salomonsson

Technical Architect

Tobias Öien

CEO

Lars Pettersson

Technical Architect

Ola Johansson

Technical Architech

Fredrik Pålerud

Technical Architect

Andreas Kjellman

Chief Technical Architect

Tatsumi Morota

Technical Architect

Ola Hagbohm

Technical Architect

Timur Lundholm

Technical Architect

Daniel Källström

Technical Architect

Maxx Glans

Captain

Benny Frank

Technical Architect

Paul Raukas

Technical Architect

Björn Högberg

Captain

Knowledge Factory

Company skills

Örjan Kihlbaum

Strategic Advisor

EXPERIENCE

Örjan has an overall 20 years experience where +10 years are in IT. He has been part of business, both IT and strategic management, covering from board membership to field assignments, always working from a strategical top down view with an analytical, get things done, perspective. From a technical side he has a broad rather than deep knowledge being able to dive into multiple type of projects and business aspects.

PERSONAL

Örjan is a curious problem solver that is purpose driven and focused on the ‘why’ in order to deliver the best value to the customer. He likes to build project groups/teams based on trust, inclusion and shared responsibility as well as being a strong believer in clear communication. Like many others on Knowledge factory he enjoys continous learning and development, always looking into new ideas, tools and models.

SKILLS

Örjan does business focused project management. He likes to combine experiences and perspectives from the various past roles and businesses to deliver results and a solid strategical viewpoint. He is structured prefering to only use the tools and methods needed to get the job done.

Structure

90%

Strategy

85%

Project management

85%

Business

80%

Analytic

80%

Digitalization

60%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Simon is a Technical Architect and Powershell Magician.

PERSONAL

Simon is an experienced workshop leader and powershell educator, and a speaker at various conferences. Simon is a positive person and the right kind person if you need an IT expert who will take responsibility, solve problems and make things happen.

SKILLS

He has many years of experience in both operate and implement new solutions within Microsoft infrastructure. Simon has a wealth of experience and deep technical expertise in planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and automation.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

PERSONAL

If you need an advisor who will guide through strategic decisions in Directory Services and Identity Management, Jimmy is the right man for the job.

SKILLS

Jimmy has over 20 years of experience implementing solutions based on Microsoft infrastructure. Jimmy has been awarded the Microsoft MVP the past 18 years, with focus on Directory Services and Identity Management.

AD

100%

Identity

100%

Security

98%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Magnus is a Technical Architect and System Center magician.

PERSONAL

Magnus specialist area is Private/Hybrid Cloud/Data center solutions, primarily focused on Microsoft Hyper-V, System Center, OpsMgr Orchestrator, VMM, DPM, Service Manger and Windows Azure Pack. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing these in both large and smaller environments and also with focus on Service Providers.

SKILLS

Magnus is very concerned in the customers need and focused on making the best solutions for their needs and takes great responsibility for ensuring that the job gets done.

System Center

100%

SCOM

98%

Orchestrator

98%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Tomas is a technical specialist within IT-infrastructure solutions. He has many years of experience in designing and implementing new solutions based on both Microsoft and Apple Infrastructure. Thomas has deep technical expertise in everything from planning and designing to migrating and troubleshooting.

PERSONAL

He can help you with the choice of server platform or if you want to take the next step in the latest technologies, he is consultant for you!

SKILLS

Tomas expertise is Microsoft Server Platform, focusing on Active Directory, Group Policy and PKI. As well as issues relating to Exchange and Office 365. He is also a specialist in management and integration of Apple products into your IT-infrastructure.

AD

90%

MDM

82%

MAC

100%

PKI

89%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Our Technical Architect and Johnny’s specialist area is deployment solutions. He mainly focuses on the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. He has extensive experience in implementing CM in both large and smaller environments. Johnny also has a long experience of other components in a Microsoft environment.

PERSONAL

Johnny really wants the customers to receive the best solution for their needs. He’s challenged by solving problems, “problems are there to be solved”.

SKILLS

Johnnys primary focus is Configuration Manager. It has been that since it was named SMS. Johnny also spend a lot of time working with other related client management tools; for example Active Directory and Group Policy.

EXPERIENCE

PERSONAL

Johan has worked in the IT industry for 20 years and has extensive experience in everything from really big to smaller environments. He puts customers in focus and his motto is: “keep it simple”!

SKILLS

He has a great interest in Identity management and Active Directory. But he also have an extensive experience with Microsoft infrastructure products. Johan strength is a good holistic approach and an ability to make the most complicated things simple. Johan is responsible, careful and loves challenges.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Henriks area of ​​specialty is solutions in deployment , primarily focusing on Microsoft MDT and System Center Configuration Manager.

PERSONAL

Henrik is efficient, accurate, and analytical and he takes responsibility for both customers and colleagues. Henriks makes things happen!

SKILLS

He has extensive experience in implementing Configuration Manager in both large and smaller environments. Henrik also has a long experience of other components in a Microsoft environment. Henry is efficient, accurate , analytical and responsive to customers and colleagues .

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

With extensive experience in roles as Leader, KAM and Sales in the IT industry, Jan Wisborg is Captain at Knowledge Factory.

PERSONAL

an has a background in a number of areas within the IT infrastructure, as an account executive advisor and senior consultant. Jan has worked with major IT companies, but also in the SMB segment.

SKILLS

Jan’s role as Captain of Knowledge Factory means that he is the coach and team leader for some of the best top players in Sweden within the IT infrastructure. Jan will be responsible for one of the Knowledge Factory’s office in Västerås.

“It will be fantastic to have the opportunity to startup Knowledge Factory in Västerås, with the professionalism and incredibly high knowledge that our consultants possess, I can’t imagine that it will be anything but very good.”, says Janne.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Johan has over 15 years of experience in Microsoft Environments in both infrastructure and systems development. He is also an experienced Project Manager.

PERSONAL

Do you want an advisor who can guide you through the jungle of the necessary strategic decisions in IT, whether it is technology, management, organization, licensing etc so Johan is the right person for you. His extensive experience and his way of being allows customers turn with confidence to Johan most important IT issues.

SKILLS

His expertise is virtualization, both Hyper-V and VMware ESX, as well as issues relating to the Private Cloud infrastructure, standardization and automation in Windows.

CONTACT

Experience

Johan Salomonsson is a Technical Architect with Directory Services, Identity solutions and migration as a specialty.

Personal

If you want to take your infrastructure to the next level, Johan is the right man for you.

Skills

Johan Salomonsson has 20+ years of technical experience in Microsoft environments in both infrastructure and systems development. Johan has deep technical knowledge and is also certified on Quest products (QMM AD/Exchange and Active Roles) which adds an extra dimension when working in larger migration and security related projects.

AD

89%

Infrastructure

100%

Quest tools

89%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Our CEO, Tobias Öien, has successfully led and expanded several companies.

PERSONAL

He has a background as an entrepreneur, IT Infrastructure Consultant and a Master of Engineering at KTH. With experience in start-up, modern leadership and coaching Tobias creates a culture where creativity and edge weighs heavily.

SKILLS

Tobias mission is to gather the IT-elite in Sweden and the world in order to meet our customers’ toughest demands for excellence in IT infrastructure. Our customers have chosen the latest technology and we deliver cutting-edge solutions.

“It motivates my top players are of course constantly being challenged in new and exciting quests. But even getting to be a part of a top team with expertise exchange on edge level, says Tobias”

Entrepreneur

98%

Sales

85%

Coaching

92%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Lasse has more than 20 years experience in IT infrastructure and more than 15 years experience of Microsoft Exchange Server. Which is also his specialist area in which he works with design and implementation.

PERSONAL

So, you want a top world class player with deep technical knowledge so do not hesitate to take the help of Lasse who are both MVP and MCSM on Exchange. Lars has been awarded Microsoft MVP the past 10 years.

SKILLS

He also has a deep knowledge of the areas that Exchange is dependent on, such as Active Directory, TCP / IP, DNS, Firewalls. Lasse has also a deep technical expertise in IPv6, Lync and its predecessor OCS.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Ola is a Technical Architect with a focus on Identity Management and Security!

PERSONAL

Ola has worked in the IT industry for 15 years and has extensive experience in everything from really big to smaller environments. He puts customers in focus and his motto is: “keep it simple!

SKILLS

He has a great interest in PKI, smart cards, and certificates. But also have extensive experience with Microsoft infrastructure products. Ola’s strength is a good holistic approach and an ability to make the most complicated things simple. Ola is responsible, careful and love challenges.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Fredrik Pålerud is a Technical Architect with a passion for Compliance and Identity solutions.

PERSONAL

If you want, control of your IT processes and delegation models of AD and would like to be able to trace them, please contact Fredrick.

SKILLS

Fredrik has worked with all versions of Microsoft operating systems since Windows NT3.51 in the mid 90s. Since Microsoft released the Active Directory in the late 90′s AD has been Frederick’s absolute focus and passion. Through the years, many multinational companies have been using Fredrick as Technical Architect and specialist consultant in migrations, transitions and consolidation projects. Today Fredrik is a world known expert on DELL Software, foremost QMM, ARS and Change Audit.

Compliance

100%

Identity

93%

QMM

96%

Speed Metal

100%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Andreas Kjellman works as Chief Technical Architect for Identity Management at Knowledge Factory. Before that he worked at Microsoft in Redmond as a Program Manager for Microsoft’s identity products, such as Forefront Identity Manager and Azure Active Directory. One could easily say that he knows his way around the products for onboarding customers to the cloud.

PERSONAL

Andreas is an experienced workshop leader and educator, and a speaker at various conferences. Andreas is generally referred to as “The Sync Guy”!

SKILLS

He has many years of experience in both operate and implement new solutions within Microsoft infrastructure. Andreas has a wealth of experience and deep technical expertise in planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and leading.

Identity

100%

Azure AD

100%

Sync

100%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Tatsumi is working as a Technical Architect and specialize in solutions for enterprise mobility and deployments, primarily focusing on Intune and System Center Configuration Manager. He also has a long experience and knowledge of other Microsoft Products and other EMM solutions like AirWatch.

PERSONAL

If you want to implement an Enterprise mobility solution, Tatsumi is the one! He is driven to keep it simple for the customer and loves to solve problems! “It’s when you are solving problems you learn the most”

SKILLS

Tatsumi’s primary focus is implementing Intune and Configuration Manager. He also has over 15 years’ experience in other Microsoft products to get a deep understanding and the whole picture!

ConfigMgr

96%

Intune

96%

Group Policy

93%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Ola is a technical specialist within everything from code to infrastructure. With a background in programming and expertise in Linux, Apple and Microsoft infrastructure he is a skilled troubleshooter in any environment.

PERSONAL

Ola is a genuine troubleshooter and will not give up until the problem is solved and the customer is happy. He will also make your IT staff happy when he replaces tedious manual tasks with an automated workflow.

SKILLS

With many years of experience in many different areas Ola has deep technical expertise in implementation, automation and troubleshooting.

PowerShell

98%

AD

82%

Azure & OMS

87%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

For the past years Timur has been working with implementing Office 365 for a variety of customers and types of environments. From small sized companies to larger state-owned/private corporations. Timur enjoys leading customers to the cloud by modernizing user experience and mobilizing workplaces.

PERSONAL

Timur puts a great effort into leaving the customer satisfied. With his attention to details and wide-area of technical knowledge – makes any task a welcomed challenge.

SKILLS

Timur originates from operations in Windows Server and its components, later also specializing in SQL Server, Exchange & SharePoint. Timur has experience from troubleshooting faulty Windows services to setting up SQL/mail-database clusters and SP farms. Lately Timur has mainly focused on cloud services for workplace, such as Office 365 and Google Apps.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Daniel is a Technical Architect with 15+ years of experience with Microsoft Infrastructure and Architecture, both as a consultant and on the customer side.

PERSONAL

With a troubleshooting personality and a solutions focused mindset based on customer needs, Daniel always find creative solutions together with our customers.

SKILLS

Daniel has a unique mindset with experience from both projecting with high-end consultants as a customer, and now acting as one. This result in a close business approach together with his focus on infrastructure, Datacenter, VMM and Hyper-V.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Benny has over 20 years of experience as an IT consultant with focus on infrastructure and Microsoft Environments. He is also an experienced Project Manager

PERSONAL

Benny is very concerned in the customers need, loyal and takes great responsibility for ensuring that the job gets done. He has leadership qualities and sharing his knowledge to others comes natural.

SKILLS

Bennys specialist areas are within Identity and Access Management and Security, primarily focused on Active Directory and Windows operating systems. Benny also has extensive experience in migrations and consolidation projects and other components in a Microsoft environment such as Hyper-V, VMM and other System Center products.

AD

90%

Security

89%

Identity

88%

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

Paul has worked in the IT industry for 25 years as a programmer, infrastructure engineer and server specialist among other things. For the last 10 years he has focused mainly on Microsofts deployment and management solutions, System Center Configuration Manager and MDT, as well as Powershell. He has extensive experience in implementing CM in both large and smaller environments.

PERSONAL

As a person, Paul is extremely focused when faced with a problem. This focus comes from the fact that he is also an elite archer which is an extremely focusoriented sport. According to himself this helps him greatly in his daily work.

SKILLS

Pauls primary focus is Configuration Manager and Powershell. He also has several years of experience of Microsoft Infrastructure and other technologies such as Specops.

CONTACT

EXPERIENCE

With extensive knowledge and broadly developed network in infrastructure, Björn is Captain at Knowledge Factory.

PERSONAL

Björn has a strong entrepreneurial mindset and is tasked to find the best solutions together with our customers och consultants.

SKILLS

Björn’s role as Captain at Knowledge Factory means that he is coach and team leader for some of the most high end consultants in Sweden.

Sales

100%

Client

84%

Coaching

89%

CONTACT

E: bjorn.hogberg@knowledgefactory.se
M: +46761400181

Knowledge Factory

Company skills

PERSONAL

Knowledge Factory (KF) has long committed to being the #1 Top Player within IT Infrastructure. Today with assignments around the globe, KF is the Premier supplier of IT Infrastructure consulting and services. KF offers Infrastructure solutions based on the latest cutting edge technologies. Our company is dedicated to providing an experience that exceeds the expectations of our global customer base.

Active Directory

100%

Exchange

100%

Identity Management

98%

Cloud - Azure

87%

Hybrid Solutions

96%

SCCM

100%

Skype for Business

100%

System Center

92%

PKI

99%

PowerShell

100%

Windows Client

99%

Windows Server

100%

O365

100%

EMS

90%

AD Migration

98%

Active Roles

96%

FIM

82%

Hyper-V

98%

VMware

86%

Mac

92%

CONTACT

KNOWLEDGE FACTORY

Knowledge Factory – An international specialist unit fully owned by Advania AB. The Champion of IT Infrastructure since 1998. Knowledge Factory has long committed to being the #1 Top Player within IT Infrastructure. Today with assignments around the globe, Knowledge Factory is the Premier supplier of IT Infrastructure consulting and services. We offer Infrastructure solutions based on the latest cutting edge technologies. Our company is dedicated to providing an experience that exceeds the expectations of our global customer base.

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IDENTITY

Our experts provide best practices to secure access to valuable resources and information—from any device and across private or cloud environments. We have extensive experience in planning and implementing highly complex security projects.

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MOBILITY

Going mobile is no longer about carrying a single mobile device. Now it means the ability for any user to pick up any device in the context of what they are doing, and have instant access to all of the “stuff”-settings, data, and applications that follow the user and flow seamlessly from device to device.

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PRODUCTIVITY

There should be no question that companies are under pressure to increase IT productivity. IT productivity should enhance an organization’s growth and promote economic well-being. We can help you communicate the way you want. Fast. Effortlessly.

STAY TUNED…

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PHILOSOPHY AND MISSION

Knowledge Factory is an independent consulting firm working in the fields of IT. Knowledge Factory operates throughout the world with offices in Stockholm, Oslo, and Västerås. Knowledge Factory has been a reliable supplier of qualified consulting services since 1998.

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CUSTOMER CENTRIC

Our company was founded in 1998 and, over more than 15 years, we have accumulated expertise and knowledge by putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

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BUILDING INFRA

People are on the move; they multi-task and live their lives across multiple devices; they want to stay connected – we build the infrastructure to support this.

We are happy to announce that Simon Wåhlin will have a pre conference at TechDays 2017 this year as well. This year will be a deep dive in to Azure ARM Templates, LVL 400. The registration is open. Get some!